The last live briefing on the coronavirus pandemic’s course in Greece for the year 2020 by the health ministry’s regular panel of experts was launched on Tuesday evening by Professor Vana Papaevangelou, alongside Professor Gkikas Magiorkinis and Deputy Minister for Civil Protection & Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias, ANA reports.
Looking back to the coronavirus’ dispersal trajectory in Greece over the past 10 months, Papaevangelou said that the first case of infection in the country was registered on Wednesday, February 26. Up to December 28, some 136,000 cases were confirmed, of which 52 pct concerned men, and most of these were detected in the 40-64 age group. Up until Monday, some 4,672 citizens have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus over those months, she added. It is obvious, she then observed, that the most vulnerable age group are those aged over 65, even if they only represent a 16.8 pct of all infections; they do, however, represent 85 pct of all those who have so far died of Covid-19, she noted.
With only a few days of 2020 left before the year expires, the new hope of several coronavirus vaccines and the government’s launch of the vaccination program has brought along a sense of new hope, she pointed up.
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